The following is a history of UK

Internet service providers An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privatel ...

(ISPs) in order of the date they started trading.

United Kingdom ISPs by age

# 1985-6

GreenNet GreenNet is a not-for-profit Internet service provider based in London, England. It was established in 1985 "as an effective and cheap way for environmental activists to communicate". In 1987 the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust gave GreenNet a g ...

# 1990

Pipex Pipex was the United Kingdom's first commercial Internet service provider (ISP). It was formed in 1990 and helped to develop the ISP market in the UK. In 1992 it began operating a 64k transatlantic leased line and built a connection to the UK go ...

# 1992-06-01

Demon Internet Demon Internet was a British Internet service provider, initially an independent business, later operating as a brand of Vodafone. It was List of UK ISPs by age, one of the UK's earliest ISPs, offering dial-up Internet access services from 1 June ...

# 1992 ExNet Initially as 'HelpEx' service # 1993 Pavilion (Sold to

Easynet Easynet was a managed services provider and delivered integrated networks, hosting and unified communications services to organisations globally. The company was later renamed Easynet Global Services, and a sister company, Easynet Connect, was fo ...

from 1 January 2001, but e-mail addresses remain extant under the pavilion.net domain) # 1994-10-13

Zetnet Zetnet was one of the UK's oldest internet service providers and according to New Scientist is the brainchild of Ghufar Razaq and Graeme Storey. It was founded in Lerwick, in the Shetland Isles. According to the Shetland Fishing News, a journal ...

# 1994

U-NET U-Net is a convolutional neural network that was developed for biomedical image segmentation at the Computer Science Department of the University of Freiburg. The network is based on the fully convolutional network and its architecture was modifie ...

# 1995 Mailbox Internet # 1995 Netdirect (

NDO NDO Limited was an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United Kingdom. Originally established in 1995, originating from NetDirect which was one of the first ISPs in the UK. History Founded as NetDirect Internet Ltd in November 1995 by Andr ...

, now part of

Namesco Namesco Ltd (names.co.uk) provides professional online services for individuals and businesses including domain name registration, web hosting, website building tools, email services, ecommerce solutions and a range of managed and unmanaged serv ...

) # 1995 Internet Central # 1995

Flexnet FlexNet Publisher (formerly known as FLEXlm) is a software license manager from Flexera Software which implements copy protection, license management and is intended to be used in corporate environments to provide Floating licensing, floating lic ...

# 1995 Power Internet Ltd (Powernet), now part of the

Timico Timico is an Information Technology Managed Services provider in the United Kingdom. Company overview Timico gained a top 10 place in The Sunday Times Tech Track Fastest Growing Companies list, and in 2009 were ranked 7th in the Deloitte Techno ...

Technology Group # 1995 Unipalm-Pipex # 1995

Zen Internet Zen Internet is an Internet service provider (ISP) based in Rochdale, England. History Zen was founded in 1995 by Richard Tang (then Managing Director, now Chairman) after a drink in the pub, Zen Internet was one of the first ISPs in the United ...

# 1996

Lumison Pulsant is a digital edge infrastructure provider, specialising in cloud, colocation and connectivity services. History Established in 1995 as EdNET, an ISP, the company was rebranded as Lumison in 2004. Lumison was acquired by Bridgepoint ...

# 1996 Simwood # 1996

Claranet Claranet provides network, hosting and managed application services in the UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands (Benelux), Portugal, Spain, Italy and Brazil. History Charles Nasser founded the ISP in 1996 and by 1999 had 150,000 subscribers ...

# 1996-11

Entanet Entanet International Limited, more commonly known as merely Entanet, and frequently stylised as Enta.net, is a leading British wholesale internet service provider (ISP), with its head office in Telford, Shropshire, England. Entanet Internationa ...

# 1997 Force 9 # 1998

Elite Limited In political and sociological theory, the elite (french: élite, from la, eligere, to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group. D ...

# 1998

Freeserve Freeserve was a British Internet service provider, which was founded in 1998. At its height, the company became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, before merging into the Wanadoo group in 2000. It then became a subsidiary of France Telecom, ...

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United Kingdom ISPs by age

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